If you're married and you had to compliment your husband every day for a month, what would you say?

Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth wants to head off this objection.

Now maybe you're thinking, I can't think of 30 things I appreciate about my husband.

Well, then think of one thing you appreciate and say it every day for the next 30 days.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamooke, author of Choosing Forgiveness for July 17th, 2023. I'm Danne Gresh.

Last week and this week, we're hearing a series from Nancy called Here Comes the Bridegroom.

She's reminding us of something amazing about your identity when you come to faith in Christ.

It's this. You're part of his bride. You've been chosen and loved,

even though you know you don't deserve it. Nancy's been showing us these truths from Song of Solomon and other scriptures. Today, Nancy wants to pause and insert a thought about human marriage.

earthly husbands and wives always fail each other,

but we can apply the truths from this series to our own marriages. Since God loves us, we can learn

to love each other, imperfect as we are. Here's Nancy. Times come, as I hear from wives, in every marriage relationship, even the best, where

they lose the sense of intimacy, of romance.

They don't feel as much in love as they were or thought, felt that they were when she

walked down the aisle to meet him.

You know, kids come and lives get busy and schedules get full.

And you can end up just being kind of roommates and not really connecting with each other.

And wives I hear from often at that season of life, it may be even that it's gotten worse than

that really not only is the romance

gone out, but it seems like the light has gone out altogether in many marriages that I'm hearing

about. And wives write, or they call or they speak to me and they're crying out, how can we

rekindle and restore the love that we had at one time.

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